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the espresso that learned to cut its own intensity with equal-parts milk and zero drama
means A small espresso drink cut with a roughly equal amount of warm steamed milk, taming the coffee's sharpness without diluting it into a latte.
from From Spanish cortado, literally 'cut,' the past participle of cortar (to cut) — itself descended from Latin curtare, 'to shorten or cut short,' a cousin of the same root that gives us 'curt' and 'curtail.' The name is wonderfully literal: the milk 'cuts' the espresso. The drink and its name are Spanish in origin, long a fixture of cafés in Spain and Portugal before the wider coffee world adopted both the cup and the word.
- name origin
- Spanish for cut, as in cut espresso
- the ratio
- roughly one-to-one espresso and steamed milk
- no foam zone
- flat texture, unlike its frothy latte cousins
- glass standard
- traditionally served in small clear glassware
- size sweet spot
- about four ounces of pure efficiency